you. do you. believe it's news of the week's top stories border shelley between syria and turkey is fresh violence hits damascus with a car bomb exploding outside police headquarters. polling stations in venezuela waiting for the last voters to cast ballots that is a patient rising to see if the long standing leader to go charge as her democratic opponent and retake the pros will take the whole of the helm in caracas. the. italians fury over the mounting descends into washers while civil servants are marching for their jobs and space.

in moscow treasure bring you today's top stories and a look back at the week's news a car bombs exploded near police headquarters in the syrian capital damascus killing at least one person syrian t.v. is calling it an act of terror the blast the latest in a series of attacks aimed at security personnel and government institutions with damascus in particular a frequent target this as syria and turkey exchanged another round of artillery shells across the border our middle east correspondent paula sleazier has the latest. for the third straight day take a shot tell you he has fired into syria this coming just minutes off to a most had landed into a case ten feet flying from syria we understand that at least eight malta's with science some to key into syria now according to the mayor of the texas border town where this shell landed he says that it was the. little damage other than damage to

a grain depôt but other than that have landed in an empty field and there were no reports of injuries it is the same border village wave five members of the same family was killed back on wednesday that was two women and three children when a mortar fire from syria landed in it was intentional building at the same time we're hearing continuing words from the turkish prime minister that he will not allow these kind of events to go unprovoked he says that if pushed he will declare war and that has been quite a strong message from him now that it's going concern that this instability and on the turkish syrian border will result in regional instability there's also concern by numerous critics who have put forth the argument that they believe that the shells that are being fired from the syrian side of being fired liberty in each remember that this rewarding area on the syrian side between syria and turkey is an area that is controlled by the way bills and as such it is possible that they're firing these these rounds deliberately to provoke turkey to go to nato and cool the

foreign intervention of course this is something that many people are increasingly concerned about the situation in syria after eighteen months of fighting is showing no lacing up there continues to be almost daily blas in the capital city of damascus and they're particularly cost suicide bombings has become almost the norm the same situation is happening in the leftover the commercial hub of the country in the north and they we're hearing of continuous heavy fighting and also in recent days and in recent weeks we've witnessed a rise in gas suicide bombings there were also receiving a twitter feed from the shah i've not not he is a sunni muslim preacher and the salafist leader who's become almost a symbol of the rebels feinstein and syria he says that they have captured the cousin of the syrian president bashar assad we have no information on that at this stage and no way of actually being able to independently prove it russia continues to play a mediating role they are expecting a. that scene you in nato envoy to syria could be in russia and they said this

month and as such will be there for talks the russian is asian common saying that this kind of escalation in tensions along the take the syrian border is completely unacceptable and any kind of cross border operations are to be found upon political analysts sure why nor why me thinks this action could be turkey's under the radar approach to syria intervention. turkey declared war on syria long time ago this is aired on endeavor to lose the war they've supplied weapons and they've supplied training assistant they've harbored you know gunmen in jihad just on their territory so so you know turkey's at a situation now crossroads where they cannot seem to get the international system they need to sort of you know do a last question against the assad regime they cannot get a u.n. security council resolution to authorize these things and this may be you know setting the groundwork a pretext for a backdoor into military intervention because of course turkey venkat can call on

its nato allies to to assist and it's centrally the nato allies who would anyways do you know a military confrontation with the assad regime if there was a u.n. security council resolution and there are questions about this is this the false why you know operation to to sort of set the grounds for military intervention there been many false narratives over syria i think this is just another one. bahrain is keeping up its crackdown on proforma protests causing more fierce clashes between police and protesters on friday tear gas and water cannons were used to disperse crowds violence started after the funeral of a young protester who died in custody to be is demanding equal rights from the sunni monarchy and the release of political prisoners one of the prominent human rights defenders to be a real job is gone on a hunger strike he was briefly released to attend his mother's funeral but not allowed to mourn further with his family his job is serving

a three year jail term for participating in illegal gatherings knew well former c.n.n. correspondent amber alert. thinks her documentary on what's happening in bahrain was censored by the. brain is paying c.n.n. to create content that shows bahrain in a favorable light even though c.n.n. says this contents you know is editorially independent it doesn't see it can affect that well we've seen that with this documentary not airing and also with the constant struggle i had at c.n.n. to get bahrain coverage accurate bahrain coverage of the human rights abuses on air while i was there what c.n.n. is doing is they're essentially creating what some people have termed infomercials for dictators and that's the sponsored content that they're airing on c.n.n. international that's actually being paid for by regimes and governments and this violates every principle of journalistic ethics because we're supposed to be watchdogs on these governments we're not supposed to allow them to be paying

customers who are able to kind of dodge our minders and sneak into some of the villages and actually see these atrocities patients who have run out of the hospitals that were shot up with birdshot and as we were heading back out of these villages we were violently detained by security forces and buffering and luckily my female producer and i were able to hide some disks in our broads and were able to actually get out of the country with this content so you can imagine covering surprise when we got back to the. and this content was airing on c.n.n. and right after that is when the phone calls started coming in to the network complaining about me and trying to get my coverage off the air. violence and unrest returns as well to tunisia this time a clash over trash at least thirteen thousand angry residents hit the streets setting cars ablaze over the reopening of a rubbish dump more details on our website plus. washington the latest city in the u.s. to display anti jihad ads we'll look at whether we may actually be provoking even

more hatred toward the muslim world this and more online right now. the anger mounting in europe as civil servants take to the streets for a second day in madrid trade unions gathered thousands to demand an end to cutbacks in the public sector and privatization of public services italy's also seen its fair share of action this week led by the country's students who clashed with police thousands marched in major cities calling for the government to save schools and not banks in a rolled up to six policemen were injured and students were old stones at them and tried to rush a police van meanwhile in venice independent supporters march saturday demanding the region go it alone messmate advisor patrick young thinks the e.u. could be headed toward collapse. the european union constantly believes it knows what's best for all of its client states therefore it pushed countries like ireland should be allowed to in order to basically appease french and german borrowers

there are absolutely no positive results from what the e.u. has done over the course of the last five or ten years indeed basically the history of the euro is not horribly sold exercise it effectively breaching the people and trying to destroy economies the european union has several fundamental problems ultimately it is a very rich area was a great deal of resources the difficulty is it's very difficult to start a business. it's very difficult to run a business if you're successful in a business they're going to touch you to death and in the meantime they're all running absolutely ridiculous call meanest era sized socialist states the truth is western europe is buying trucks it cannot afford the how big government be the major economic actor in the system and therefore just as we saw in russia paul minnesota collapsed so we're seeing the death of western european socialism the pakistani military has blocked an anti u.s.

motorcade or alley that was heading toward the country's tribal hub along the afghan border the protest was led by cricket legend turned politician in iran can an attractive thousands of people a large number of civilians have died in american drone strikes khan is calling for an end to the killings robert naiman an activist an analyst pushing for changes to u.s. foreign policy civilians have become the main victims of drone attacks not high level militant leaders as washington claims that president obama's counterterrorism adviser has claimed that civilian deaths from drone strikes are exceedingly rare well we know that the bureau of investigative journalism in the u.k. has counted somewhere between four hundred eight hundred. civilian deaths since two thousand and four from u.s. drone strike so in fact far from being exceedingly rare the civilian deaths are normal that's a regular thing and in fact there are seven to fifteen times as many as the death of these so-called top level terrorist leaders so the actual policy is something

completely different from the story that's being told united states the stories being told united states is this all about targeting top level terrorist leaders and it's not killing civilians the reality is the total opposite of that the un special rapporteur tour extrajudicial an execution has said that you know if these reports are true about what the u.s. is doing they would constitute a war crime. u.s. involvement in neighboring afghanistan has also seen thousands of casualties among civilians as well as nato troops still to come r.t. we turn to the legacy of nato action there are eleven years on and its consequences these stories and more after the break stay with us. flying north with me in this old soviet work or so the helicopter is dr run amir

brodsky and his team from the region's medical aviation service we head across ever more barren tundra higher and higher into russia's arctic far north until eventually we see our landing spot with arrive at this tiny village after crossing hundreds of kilometers of snow a world of us as a boy here suffering favre and the doctors are going to see what they can do. inside a small building not warm but two babies and their parents are waiting for us the doctors inspect them but can't make a diagnosis and decide to bring them to a regional hospital for better care spread lana doesn't like taking her baby away from home but she's been before and agrees to go that's the usual practice with those who live in atlanta they keep mothers with their newborns in hospital for a month. on the way back another stop to check on the health of some native minutes reindeer herders out in the tundra it can take many hours to reach the nearest

village so a medical problem simply fixed here in the tent. they used to be but now we can go to civilize places so we call for emergency help. back at hospital other patients helped by the air ambulance are being treated the service costs forty million dollars a year to run and there's been controversy with some claiming that locals exaggerate or make up health problems and use the helicopters. as a free taxi service i causations vladimir firmly dismisses it bro that is not true usually the calls are perfectly justified sometimes we even reproach locals waiting too long before calling us he's been working as a doctor now for forty three years but vladimir is confident the diva after he retires his helicopter doctors will remain a lifeline to the peoples of the russian foreign north. well into the future science technology innovation all the latest developments from

around russia we've got the future covered. more news today violence is once again fled the film these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets and canada. china operations are today.

thanks for staying with us here on r t fourteen minutes past the hour now polling stations in venezuela beginning to close although some are still open as citizens wait in line to cast their vote no incidents have been reported during election day as the nation chooses which candidate is going to run the country incumbent leader who go chavez faces his biggest challenge yet to his socialist rule from henryk a kept young democrat with both candidates vowing to respect the outcome of the election u.s. media coverage of the presidential race in venezuela has been criticized that was being biased against chavez asia times correspondent pepe escobar thinks washington would like a willing partner in caracas and not an intractable leader. and as the author election which is shows he's well i guess washington which of the united states didn't love to have sex tippy client state and that's where i like it was before job was before these twelve years but chas it's amazing because if you

follow mainstream media india way it's in western europe and even the most of south america big bribes it's controlled media it's also better even as well in brazil and argentina out for instance shut is the most big one i just had bill stayed in modern times even martin said that was saying that the hockey out of five. but the image that you name it it's amazing that these private groups least of them they are aligned with washed just like the situation that you see inside of that as well so often is that chavez is there just as a communist or even a fascist or even a mix of tools like a communist fascists completely upset. south korea signed an agreement with the u.s. which it allows did to possess missiles capable of reaching any part of north korea a previous arms pact with washington restricted souls' ability to develop or deploy long range rockets leaving many targets in the communist state out of reach but tim

beal in asia specialist in london thinks the real goal could be behind the deal could be to threaten china. this new range will take them into china that i think has been the sticking point and. seizures of the americas and now increased to it. sooner so it was the american election everything to do with elections from the south korea's point of view they want to build in capability for their next. in december which conceivably might have been more peaceful government i think this. signing has not been very much to do with that satellite test is just the problem of long discussions and both sides thinking this is it time for electoral reasons to come to an agreement to to extend a ballistic missile range there is a certain reason talk for concern i mean more missiles around them there is so

dangerous things that basically says barak you don't really think next only any peaceful difference in the balance of the balance of east asia on me in america's favor in south korean state or north korea is very very weak in new terms real military terms and we have to see this within the context of our no one can strategy to contain china october seventh eleven years ago the day the u.s. led war in afghanistan began more than three thousand alliance troops have died in the conflict most of them americans far more afghan civilians have also lost their lives international affairs commentator rick rose off from start nato thinks the alliance has fostered discontent among the afghan people. freshers little has been accomplished and on the positive sense of course for the the western military intervention and occupation in afghanistan. most of the arguably the only

accomplishment dubious as it is that opium production of skyrocketed under the watch of the u.s. and nato in afghanistan you know evidently the afghan people are not on developing foreign boots on the ground and no particularly after such a prolonged period of the so-called green on blue attacks are an indication that the rank and file of the the afghan population would like to see us in their nato allies the u.s. and the nato allies vacate the country this quickly as possible and that none of this debacle would have occurred in the first place out of nothin or the card in the reagan administration's fear of the war which exacerbated ethnic and regional and other tensions inside the country and theirs and in essence led to a thirty four year war in afghanistan and we have to place the blame where it belongs here this is the result of us intervention going back to the late ninety's seventy's. turning now to some other stories making headlines across the globe

libya's recently elected prime minister has been forced to stand down after a vote of no confidence from the parliament mustafa abu sugar failed for a second time to win the lawmaker approval for a new cabinet the initial kavanah lineup was rejected thursday protesters stormed the building calling for the prime minister's resignation or was the country's first elected leader after last year's overthrow of colonel gadhafi. an alleged palestinian militant was killed nine others injured in an israeli airstrike in gaza aircraft targeted two motorcyclists that israel claims were jihadi he's planning a terror attack against troops and civilians witnesses identified one is a member of a palestinian militant group three children were among the injured. me. so dan's president has ordered the land and a river of border crossings with south sudan reopened this after the two countries president's last month signed deals on security and cooperation held by experts as a signal of the edenton long running tension. the two nations broke apart in july

last year after decades of civil war. a misunderstanding that left a young man badly beaten in a hospital bed a russian a student who'd been detained on charges later dropped is now facing a lengthy and i'm certain recovery after being brutally beaten by inmates at a canadian juvenile detention center as family and friends say the country's authorities aren't doing anything to help out his art he's probably boycott reports . a trip to study english in canada gone horribly wrong twenty four year old denise teller cough arrived in calgary in june eager to learn about the country and make new friends it was at this language school those friends would quickly turn to enemies with a misunderstanding over a girl she was charged with making threats and placed in calgary's room on center actually we're going to play the face like you work your family. you don't know whether you know what you'll play mcnair's this and it will not die or. something i

mean. i don't know why it was just a big misunderstanding while his family in moscow tried to scrape together the bail money things took a turn for the wass cellmates brutally attacked him jumping on his head repeatedly after months on a life support machine denise recently would change consciousness doc to say he's in a vegetative state his adoring family is devastated by the lane go not eating on his own you have been there already and you grieving do you. feel you are already of so far away from it aren't you know. very slowly or are. the charges that denise faced have now been dropped which in turn meant the detention center was no longer responsible for his medical bills leaving his family facing a financial nightmare on top of the emotional one local media campaigning to raise

funds for denise's ballooning medical bills. will watch action. or. to call them to call them bull or in. general. all we were or what we all hope all warm and. denise isn't the only victim to emerge from this facility last month another man christopher kirk suffragette a lacerated spleen and a broken nose after a similar attack while in custody. very often in sharpening all we were and it didn't do not a lot but action and we were very late in going. in the war i mean. the young man so eager to find out about life in canada studying english like he didn't initially set out is now

a distant prospect fast he'll once again have to learn the basics how to walk feed himself and speak his native russian denise's family can only hope that the country where this brutal attack took place provides him with the help that we so desperately needs. a new mom coming up we need some young people spending their free time climbing construction towers and ignoring all elements of safety in search of an adrenaline rush that's coming up after a short break. in this remote siberians image people still sing the sounds which russians sang in the media ages and they cherish the ancient rituals practiced by the will set up

church before the seventeenth century the old believers he resigned the area are a conservative community they're known as the simi skia a word which refers to family. that i may need here yet again i feel. i now am the first to tell you that. people here are happy to show their way of life to tourists and to show them how to dance in the local star. use of prayer and the girl needs to watch her legs don't go up too much during the dance she must be a model stick. a. seventeen year old nun to is from the same village she now studies in the city and dances at a club. she puts on her costume and the traditional amber necklace only when she

comes to visit her grandmother. yet. i did ask on time per day and say yes because i want to keep up to date with this morning world but still i would like to hear of camp my very ground home my sources layered and this is my treasure their attachment to the church brought not just an sisters to this remote glen to east deflate by call more than two hundred fifty years ago they were exiled in persecuted for not. green to the orthodox who for washing the sixteen hundred they wanted to maintain their time honored rituals they'll believe is still baal and cross themselves with two fingers not with three as they do in modern orthodox churches in russia and never knew when praying but his father said he says it's not so much the rituals they cherish as the moral principles he does not approve of what doing. to believe.

could legs and. things started to spoil during the soviet union. was more and more young people leaving for big city this year is the old believers culture could be imperiled nowadays young people prefer urban life to devoting their life to agriculture but it's not necessary to leave it inside to remember that and try to keep their. plans to continue her studies abroad the grandmother says wherever she goes as long as the teen years are fresh in her memory so is the creator ok. only twenty minutes to cover two hundred twenty meters with no safety ropes.

known as dexter on the internet storms a radio station in electra's a city not far from moscow ok here we go. he is most likely to establish a new record. to friends of our legs follow him with no safety rope seen. if his online name is busted and as the youngest of the three. legs of congress the summit even quicker than he expects it in just fifteen minutes. they've never trained as professional rescuers they've never even completed a course for climbers dexter bassett extreme sportsman explorers of urban roofs this is their third ascent there at the top they took the footage which made

the british daily mail call them crazy russians a five minute video made them true internet celebrities they received more than one million viewers over the first week alone. which they i don't think there's anything a person can do those who can do something they think is impossible we simply love it so much we develop our abilities and i just myself to extreme situations so that i can perform these acts. i always test myself in terms of what i'm capable of. all three live in towns close to moscow dexter lives in newport see that electra style and basket comes to travel from show three. show is a small town in moscow without much to do young people spend their free time here at sports bars or in the yards of apartment blocks they discuss the latest news while sipping their drinks as for years guinea basseley i have.